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Jaime Prieto Mendez (born 1 January 1954) is a Colombian human rights activist. The
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describes him as "internationally regarded as a founder of the modern Colombian human rights movement", and in 1998 awarded him its
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along with fellow Colombian activists
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, and
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. Prieto began his career as a teacher in a poor area of
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. Feeling that lack of "human rights literacy" increased the abuses against the poor, he began a human rights education program for which authorities later imprisoned him. In 1976, he joined the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners, and in 1990 he became its executive director, a position he held until 1998. He then took a teaching position at a university in Bogotá.


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Living people Colombian human rights activists Place of birth missing (living people) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureates 1954 births {{Colombia-bio-stub